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Solar £22k with a payback over five years? I’m not sure I can say no! Heatpump Booked! Frigate An NVR - Network Video Recorder that isn’t a slightly sketchy Chinese Hikvision rip-off! (Not that there is owt wrong with that, but I’ve got my own server and NAS , it seems a shame not to use it. A bit opaque to set up, but surprisingly good with a premium version that costs $50. Mobile clients are a…
By ‘ it’, I mean the Nokiaectomy. The answer is ‘ yes’. Behold the tower of power, and the mighty Nokia alongside! Network rack It has taken me about four hours to relocate everything, but the boiler is now clear of networking kit and I just need to store the Starlink gubbins somewhere (and set a reminder to plug it in once every 6 months or so). All the wiring is somewhere sensible and I’ve even…
As regular readers of this blog will know, I have been patiently waiting for B4RN to hook me up to some 1gbs goodness. This finally happened, and in order to make that happen they lumber you with a big old all-in-one router/wifi AP . In this case, it’s a Nokia XS-2426G- B . A giant of a thing. While I am sure it is the best device for the job, the fact that B4RN are also all in on Nokia at the…
Finally, the PON light on the router has gone green. I am about to cancel the Starlink and I’ve never been happier. Bit of a wobble when they put the router into bridge mode (odd that they have to do that, I expect a Call when I start fiddling with the bypass) but an IP address has been assigned and away we go. Not quite 1gbs on the speedtest, but the latency is in the single digits and boy do you…
I was trying to work out when I could realistically get some running in so I did what everyone does when faced with numbers and opened a spreadsheet. I knew I was time poor, but once you get it on paper it is a very depressing picture. I work an 8 day cycle - 4 on, 4 off for Job 1 and Job 2 is where I live. Day 1 0450: wake 0520: leave 0700: work 1 1700: leave 1830: home 2030: work 2 2130: relax…
I’ve been writing and rewriting this for some time as I really don’t know how to say it. At risk of outing myself, one of my colleagues was killed on 8th June this year. They had been deployed to deal with an RTC on a fast road. They didn’t come home again. Public details are scarce: Two vehicle RTC on a fast dual-carriageway Driver and passengers had decamped from one Police attended, PC Turnbull…
First time back in London in about a year, now as a technical northerner. Will I get stabbed, robbed, or otherwise discombobulated? Aunties on a postcard because there is clearly no way that it could be anything but uneventful /s
I remain firmly in the Ed Zitron “ It’s a massive bubble” school of thought. I firmly believe that unrestrained LLM usage is the work of the devil. However, I used claude.ai to debug my ipv6 travails with Starlink & Mikrotik and, blow me down, it did work. But I don’t half feel dirty as a result! I’ve also bought another domain name, specifically for the house connection, so I didn’t have to muck…
I have now taken possession of my first EV . It’s a Cupra Born, the Seat variant of the VW ID 3. It’s a lease (salary sacrifice via NHS Fleet) and my first new car after some 4 decades on this planet. Turned out to be the ’ 26 facelift as well, so that was unexpected given the order date. Pretty swift, cheaper to run than the diesel Mazda 6 with all manner of technical whizz bang nonsense. A bit…
It’s done. It’s over. I have finally managed to expose a device with an IPv6 address behind Starlink to the internet at large. It has a domain name and is accessible from the outside world without having to muck about with tailscale or VPNs. I’m going to level with you, I’m not entirely sure about how I’ve managed it, but who wants to let truth get in the way of a good story… Tips Mikrotic routers…
More for my own reference - IPv6 config for Starlink + Mikrotik combo. It’s a little less useful for me because I’m running the majority of Things in the house off the in-built wifi + mesh devices, so I’m pretty confident this doesn’t propagate back but it’ll be handy for if B4RN ever turn up to finish the install…
Pre previous posts, we’re on the list for some gigabit broadband action after some five years of ADSl -> brief stint of 4G -> Starlink. Now Starlink, as an internet connection, is fine . It’s reasonably swift (1-200mbs, depending on the mood), latency is surprisingly OK , and it has been reliable - I think one system-wide outage, and one feagle related outage. The customer service for me has been…
B4RN popped round the other day. They drllled a hole in the wall, ran some fibre to a box and out back to the road and then went away again. Now there’s a coil of orange ducting awaiting connection and I am currently In the meantime, have been Doing My Own Research. Apparently this roll out is XG-PON based which means that this is a thing and I may have some fiddling in my future!
As alluded to previously, I have been impressed (blown away, even) with the price/value ratio of Chinese hi-fi equipment. Having discovered that it is now possible to backup one’s Apple music in a format that doesn’t rely on an Apple device, I decided to explore the infamous tat bazaar that is AliExpress and pick out a solution that would let me listen to music either in the forthcoming…
An M3 MacBook Pro doesn’t need to be continuously charged. Indeed that is one of the selling points that Apple touts. This means that I have, in the many years of doing Mac stuff, done Something Awful to my particular mac. A program, a setting, something running in the background has caused it pain and I have no idea how to unpick it. So I’m not. I’m declaring bankruptcy and nuking it. I’m not…
Having been using various Google services for over a decade, the headlong rush to genAI has frankly put me right off. Consequently, the migration has begun! Although I’ve got two workspace accounts (personal for free, and business, paid for) it turns out that the only services I really use it for are email and calendaring. The drive is something I use once in a blue moon, along with the ‘ docs’…
Magnet I have tried my absolute hardest to try and get into tiling window managers. They all look the bee’s knees (other insect joints are available) but my goodness, they are simply impossible to use without a cheat-sheet to one hand and, dare I say it, probably overkill. To be fair, all I really want is something that works like Windows, and that is probably the only time I will ever say that.…
TinyStart Ever since I had a mac using OS X (or macOS as I must reluctantly call it now!) I have had some form of quicklauncher. Previously Quicksilver, then Raycast when I came back to a mac with an M series Air as Quicksilver was unmaintained as far as I could tell. Raycast has been fine . It does a lot of stuff that I don’t use, it’s VC backed and is all-in on the AI about which I am leaning…
Good news, not cancer. A non-malignant tumour that also turned out to be a rare hybrid type. The biopsy was sufficient to get rid and I retain my lush, wiry facial hair to the delight of absolutely nobody. The really annoying ‘ ping’ turned out to be the result of using the iPad version of Tapestry on MacOS. Now replaced with an actual mac program and the binging has stopped. Any other business…
I do seem to spend a lot of time apologising for the lack of updates. Given that I’m likely the only person to ever read this, it’s probably self-actualisation. Which may or may not be a word or if it is, this may not be what it means. Nevertheless, big news. I probably have cancer. Not the sudden three-weeks to live type, but a slghtly annoying skin cancer. A squamous cell carcinoma going by the…
On the Reddits, someone posted a link to their OLED mini departures board project and it is a) splendid b) relevant and c) cheap! I will have to see if it is possible to customise the display a bit further for my very specific needs but it will sit nicely on the desk at work. So back to AliExpress - boards are £3 , display is a tenner and 3D prints are basically free to me. Some debate about which…
Due to Reasons, I am now the proud owner of a DJI Mini 4 Pro quad-copter drone. Once again, I am astonished at the quality you can get from a consumer level piece of electronics. It is absolutely astonishing - this took about ten minutes to film, a further ten minutes to edit and about three weeks to create a Google account not linked to my main…
As much for my reference and anyone else, but if you’re using Tidal Cycles and have thought to yourself that you would like to control individual instruments from different channels using TC , then read on. This is likely to be a similar approach for other DAWs but I understand Reason can be a bit picky about MIDI so I can’t make any guarantees. That said, if you know what a MIDI send actually is…
Part 3 in a near-infinite set of me discovering things that are really cool and for some reason I have only just noticed. Today, I am mostly awed by the Pinecil. I ordered some soldering bits for the Project ( posts passim ) and as it has been A Number Of Years since I last bought a soldering iron, many reviews recommended the Pinecil v2 . I skimmed through them a bit, I will admit, went away and…
Without wanting to bore you about my living situation, I found myself with the need to purchase some Hi Fi equipment. I went with a Fosi Audio v3 amp and a Fosi Audio P3 pre-amp and a pair of Elac Debut B6.2 bookshelf speakers (spoiler, they’re too big for a bookshelf). They have sounded pretty good to me, and I have a reasonable history with audio so I think they’re very much there or…
Printed the case, thusly: It’s come out pretty well. I can see why the designer went with the 30 key keyboard - it looks like it would be in proportion with the case style, so I think I’ll probably go with it. May need a Vial cheat sheet to deal with the layers!
As alluded to in previous posts, I am a Terrible Notetaker. I have fired up Logseq as that seems to (notwithstanding the possibility that it’s moving to a DB backend vs flat files) fit me a bit better - the block/pages idea seems to work well, and the iOS app is excellent, but the proof will be in the pudding. If I find myself with a week’s worth of blank daily journals, then we know it hasn’t…
First, some form of apology. I’ve read that the best way to improve is by writing, so you’re now a test audience for what may resemble a bit of a stream of consciousness - I’m going to try and get some words down regardless, and this may soon resemble a dumpster fire but I will promise to try and keep some relevance in here somewhere. Further to my various posts re the microjournal, I’ve been…
Yesterday, I linked to this. It turns out that the maker, Un Kyu Lee, has in fact open-sourced all the units on that there GitHub , and as the proud owner of a 3D printer this could very much be something on the cards! Again, very much a want rather than a need but there is no denying that it is an exceedingly good looking beast and probably more practical than the Psion 5MX that’s languishing in…
So I mentioned something about drones being witchcraft. Possibly wizardry. But turns out that I was overconfident in the magic - I have a Project, which requires me to map the back field at high resolution. Maps Made Easy is one of those “ this is witchcraft” applications that makes the drone, which is already magic, churn out high resolution aerial mapping in minutes. Draw the area on the phone,…
Late to the party, as always, but I recently picked up a BambuLabs X1 Carbon . Cor, isn’t it good! Leaving aside controversy around some recent firmware updates and noting that in the latest update they’ve added some support for Sunlu filaments for the AMS , it really is astonishing quite how far this tech has come - with a bit of CAD expertise, or just using files from others, you can end up with…